A new paradigm of computing

Magic Leap is a pioneer in spatial computing, developing groundbreaking augmented reality technology that seamlessly blends digital content with the real world. As the creator of the next computing platform, our mixed reality devices unlock new possibilities for how people interact with and experience their surroundings.

Magic Leap could be your place if you want to be part of a united team where everyone is empowered and trusted to make an impact. At Magic Leap, you can explore innovative solutions and use your talents to solve real-world problems. Working alongside industry experts, you can grow your skills and amplify human potential at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. We know that successful change and progress accelerate diverse perspectives. As we shape our future, everyone's voice matters. Together, we can reimagine the world of work and, with our bold partners, make the impossible possible.

The opportunity

The Product Development and Engineering job family is the core of Magic Leaps revolutionary AR capabilities. These highly collaborative teams are responsible for our organization's engineering and technical operations, performing cutting-edge and complex scientific research and development that is 'defined as we build' to create new AR products, features, and marketplaces. Activities include undertaking research, design, development, and implementation activities to improve Magic Leaps AR products and services; designing, constructing, testing, and operating equipment; ensuring that standards of quality, cost, safety, reliability, timeliness, and performance are met in production processes; interpreting plans, drawings, and specifications; and collaborating across all Magic Leap teams to ensure our AR product and features provide a high-quality, immersive experience, meeting and exceeding our customers needs and our business objectives.

As a Senior, Embedded Software Engineer within our Software organization, you will design, optimize, and develop device drivers and systems capable of supporting the most optimal user experience ever seen. You will work on an embedded sensor and display system that requires strict timing tolerances under heavy loads, novel approaches to displaying content, and much more. You will get to make tough technical decisions that help shape the direction of our product.

What youll do

• Serve as a direct, and technical individual contributor
• Architect, design, implement, debug HW-SW drivers for the Magic Leap platform, including but not limited to writing device drivers for memory (flash and DDR), SPI, I2C, and GPIO drivers.
• Architecture and design will include writing the driver input/output details, peripheral usage, and memory usage details. Implement will be done to meet product ship acceptance timelines.
• Debug timing, race conditions, memory issues on a daily basis in a timely manner, and may include use of JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, etc.
• Deliver full platform software to the rest of Magic leaps Software team, which includes writing drivers for all needed hardware peripherals, writing the software to boot the Operating System (including memory initialization, and platform initialization).
• Occasional travel to the factory to debug HW-SW issues onsite in order to build MagicLeap hardware with quality and deliver units on time to various other teams.
• Work with cross departmental teams, such as Hardware, Applications, and Middleware to debug cross-functional issues such as memory corruption, timing issues, and performance issues. Write detailed reports on the problem statement and how it was solved to be used as reference for future issues.

The experience you bring

• 5 years experience in embedded software development.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent relevant experience in an applicable field. We are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements
• Fluent in C programming.
• Experience with standard embedded development practices.
• Experience in Linux and other micro kernels, with sensitivity to performance, memory utilization, and extensible architectures.
• Experience in writing drivers for various peripherals over various interfaces: I2C, SPI, USB, PCIE.
• Experience with using JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers and other debuggers.
• Experience in designing and implementing asynchronous or concurrent multithreaded systems.
• An understanding of common protocols for communication with hardware and other software modules.
• Sound communicator and self-motivated to complete projects, and enjoy hw-sw debugging.

Its exciting if you also have

• Masters Degree in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
• 2-4 years Experience with real-time and time-critical systems.
• Experience with machine vision.
• Experience in a high-volume production environment.
• Experience with commonly-used mobile operating systems (i.e. Android or iOS).
• Ability to work directly with hardware teams for device bring up and debugging.
• Experience with embedded databases or interprocessor communication layers.
• Factory testing process experience.

Additional information

• All your information will be kept confidential according to Equal Employment Opportunities guidelines

Accommodations

If you need an accommodation during the application, interviewing, or hiring process, you may request an accommodation by emailing ApplicantAccommodation@magicleap.com. Magic Leap will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities to the extent required by applicable law.

Please note that we do not accept any application documents via (e-)mail. Furthermore, we do not accept applications from recruitment agencies for this role.